My Intro
September 6, 2013 at 4:31 pm
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2013 at 5:22 pm by AtheistAshley.)
Hello all,
My name is Ashley, I live in California. I come from a interracial/mixed family. My mother is Filipina and my father is African American. My family is not super religious but they do identity as Catholics. All my life, as far back as I can remember I never had much faith in the idea of "God". However, sometimes I would feel guilty for questioning God, the bible and religion. I felt it was bad to question because questioning might be taken as disrespect? Most of my life, up until last year I have just carried a nonchalant feeling toward "God". Last year I started exploring and learning more in depth about religions, Gods, Evolution, Science, Agnosticism and Atheism. I looked at all sides of the coin and by the end of 2012 I concluded with myself that I was definitely an Atheist. What I have found the most interesting about being an Atheist is how people react. I am not ashamed to be an atheist but with some people I feel like I have to carefully divulge my non faith. I feel like people I have told (family, friends, coworkers etc.) look down on me being an atheist. A lot of people have told me I am going though a phase, or questioned have I lost faith due to something bad that's going on in my life? or they ask if I am angry with God? - I am not angry at something that I don't even acknowledge as being real. I am not a mad person. I am not mad at the world either. I did not lose faith in "God", I never had faith to begin with. If something bad or good was happening in my life I would not hold God as credit to why the good has happen or discredit to when the bad happens. There are many Gods and all of them in my world of reality are simply fictional mythological characters.
My name is Ashley, I live in California. I come from a interracial/mixed family. My mother is Filipina and my father is African American. My family is not super religious but they do identity as Catholics. All my life, as far back as I can remember I never had much faith in the idea of "God". However, sometimes I would feel guilty for questioning God, the bible and religion. I felt it was bad to question because questioning might be taken as disrespect? Most of my life, up until last year I have just carried a nonchalant feeling toward "God". Last year I started exploring and learning more in depth about religions, Gods, Evolution, Science, Agnosticism and Atheism. I looked at all sides of the coin and by the end of 2012 I concluded with myself that I was definitely an Atheist. What I have found the most interesting about being an Atheist is how people react. I am not ashamed to be an atheist but with some people I feel like I have to carefully divulge my non faith. I feel like people I have told (family, friends, coworkers etc.) look down on me being an atheist. A lot of people have told me I am going though a phase, or questioned have I lost faith due to something bad that's going on in my life? or they ask if I am angry with God? - I am not angry at something that I don't even acknowledge as being real. I am not a mad person. I am not mad at the world either. I did not lose faith in "God", I never had faith to begin with. If something bad or good was happening in my life I would not hold God as credit to why the good has happen or discredit to when the bad happens. There are many Gods and all of them in my world of reality are simply fictional mythological characters.
•~freaky like the daughter of a pastor~•
